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York University was incorporated in Toronto in 1959. Its early development included Glendon College, Atkinson College and the Keele campus, with different approaches to residential, part-time and urban university education.
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Wilfrid Laurier University traces its roots to the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, opened in Waterloo in 1911. Known for a time as Waterloo Lutheran University, it took its present name in 1973, opened a Brantford campus in 1999 and welcomed its first Milton students in September 2024.
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The University of Windsor’s story began in September 1857, when the first students arrived at its predecessor, Assumption College. Assumption admitted its first women students in 1950 and, on July 1, 1953, ended its affiliation with the University of Western Ontario and gained its own university powers by an act of the Ontario Legislature.
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Western University was founded on March 7, 1878, by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth as The Western University of London Ontario, and first admitted students in 1881 in arts, divinity, law and medicine. It bought its present campus from the Kingsmill family in 1916 and was renamed The University of Western Ontario in 1923. Brescia University College fully integrated with Western in 2024.
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The University of Waterloo opened in 1957 to 74 engineering students, with co-operative education as its cornerstone.
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The University of Toronto was founded in 1827. Its Governing Council, established under the University of Toronto Act, 1971, oversees the university’s academic, business and student affairs.
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Trent University was founded in 1964 and has campuses in Peterborough and Durham GTA. Its Peterborough campus lies along the Otonabee River and the Trent–Severn Waterway. Its motto, “Nunc Cognosco Ex Parte,” means “Now I know in part.”
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Toronto Metropolitan University began in 1948 as the Ryerson Institute of Technology on the former Toronto Normal School site. It became Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in 1963, gained degree-granting authority by 1971 and achieved university status in 1993.
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Queen’s University was established in Kingston, Ontario, in 1841. Arthur B. McDonald, a professor emeritus at Queen’s, received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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OCAD University began in Toronto as the Ontario School of Art in 1876, founded by the Ontario Society of Artists with 14 registered students. It was incorporated as the Ontario College of Art in 1912 and adopted the OCAD University name in 2010. The Sharp Centre for Design opened in 2004.
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Tyndale University traces its origins to the Toronto Bible Training School, founded in 1894. It adopted the name Tyndale College & Seminary in 1998; Ontario legislation authorized its arts degrees in 2003 under the name Tyndale University College & Seminary.
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Redeemer University grew out of the Ontario Christian College Association, founded in 1976 with a Reformed constitution. In 1980 the Ontario Legislature passed the Redeemer College Act, recognizing Redeemer Reformed Christian College and its charter.
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Sheridan College began in 1967 with 400 students. It developed campuses in the Ontario cities of Oakville, Brampton and Mississauga.
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Fanshawe College serves the London region of Ontario, with campuses in London, Simcoe, St. Thomas and Woodstock. Its programs include skilled-trades and apprenticeship training.
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Centennial College was established in 1966 as Ontario’s first public college. Its campuses are mainly in the eastern Greater Toronto Area.
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Thompson Rivers University was founded in 1970 as Cariboo College, one of a network of two-year community colleges created in British Columbia to widen access to post-secondary education. In 1989 it became the University College of the Cariboo, part of a provincial effort to offer full university degrees.
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Kwantlen Polytechnic University was established by British Columbia’s government in 1981. Its name was given by the Kwantlen First Nation; the university explains “Kwantlen” as meaning “tireless runner.”
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Capilano University was founded as Capilano College, which opened on September 10, 1968, with 784 students taking evening classes in a portable building at West Vancouver Senior Secondary School, part of a 1960s effort to widen access to post-secondary education in British Columbia. Its permanent North Vancouver campus opened in 1973.
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Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, developed from a Christian higher-education project begun in 1957. In 1985, the provincial legislature established its university status through the Trinity Western University Act.
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The College of New Caledonia was established in Prince George in January 1969, using leased space at the local senior secondary school, and opened officially on October 10, 1969, with 253 students. It serves British Columbia’s Central Interior, a region of about 117,500 square kilometres, and takes its name from New Caledonia, the name explorer Simon Fraser gave the region.
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The University of Lethbridge’s main campus sits in the southern Alberta coulees overlooking the Oldman River and is known for University Hall, designed by Arthur Erickson; a Calgary campus serves working professionals. The university’s Blackfoot name, Iniskim, meaning Sacred Buffalo Stone, was given by Elder Bruce Wolf Child in 2002.
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The University of Calgary gained autonomy on April 29, 1966. Its institutional roots include the Alberta Normal School, which opened in Calgary in 1906.
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Alberta University of the Arts began in Calgary in 1926 as the Art Department of the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, now SAIT. The Alberta College of Art moved into its own building in 1973 and separated from SAIT in 1985.
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The King’s University in Edmonton began as The King’s College in September 1979. Its first students studied in rented premises, with 55 courses offered under founding president Rev. Sidney DeWaal.
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